Movie/Television mogul,
Tyler Perry has filed for a protective order against his ex-employee, 27-year old
Joshua Sole of
Dunwoody who was booked into the county jail on Friday for criminal trespass at Tyler Perry's studio.
Sole is trying to intimidate him, Perry says in the lawsuit. Sole had tried to contact Perry Thursday with no success, the lawsuit said. He apparently was so determined to get a
face-to-face with the movie maker that the lawsuit said, he disengaged the power to disable the alarms and surveillance equipment at the studio in southwest Atlanta.
Then he climbed into the studio through a suspended ceiling, the lawsuit said.
Atlanta police said they got a call about an intruder at the Tyler Perry studio about 6pm on Thursday. When officers arrived, the head of security said an "employee Joshua Sole has been acting weird" and had barricaded himself in a room where the administrative offices were located, according to the incident report.
It took police more than four hours to get Sole into custody. He was booked into Fulton County Jail early Friday morning.
Perry is asking the court to ban Sole from coming within 500 feet of him, and to compel Sole to undergo a psychological evaluation and treatment as well as pay Perry at least $100.000. The studio executives will let the jury decide if he deserved more compensation, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit doesn't say whether Perry fired Sole or in what capacity he was employed in the first place.
Perry also wanted $25.000 for attorney fees.
A Fulton county magistrate apparently didn't consider Sole dangerous. He was released on a $7, 000 signature bond---meaning, he put up nothing of value---the same day he was jailed....
